"Annual rainfall is the total accumulated rain over one year. Rain is vital for life, including plant growth, drinking water, river ecosystem health, and sanitation. Floods and droughts affect our environment, economy, and recreational opportunities.

This dataset shows annual average rainfall across New Zealand for 2010 as part of the data series for years 1972 to 2013. Annual rainfall is estimated from the daily rainfall estimates of the Virtual Climate Station Network (NIWA).

This dataset relates to the ""Annual average rainfall"" measure on the Environmental Indicators, Te taiao Aotearoa website.

Geometry: gridUnit: mm/yr"

Status

Progress Code

completed

Point Of Contact

Responsible Party

Organisation Name

Environmental Reporting, Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand by Ministry for the Environment

Access Constraints

Restriction Code

license

Resource Constraints

Legal Constraints

Use Limitation

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

Use Constraints

Restriction Code

copyright

Resource Constraints

Legal Constraints

Use Limitation

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand by Ministry for the Environment

Use Constraints

Restriction Code

license

Language

eng

Character Set

Character Set Code

utf8

Topic Category Code

environment

Extent

EX _ Extent

Geographic Element

EX _ Geographic Description

Identifier

Authority

Citation

Title

ANZMet Lite Country codelist

Date

Edition

Version 1.0

Edition Date

Date

2009-03-31

Identifier

Identifier

Code

http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/profileinfo/anzlic-country.xml#Country

Cited Responsible Party

Responsible Party

Organisation Name

ANZLIC the Spatial Information Council

Role

Role Code

custodian

Code

nzl

Extent

EX _ Extent

Geographic Element

EX _ Geographic Bounding Box

164.373835631-178.368273496-47.5566512869-33.826801176

Distribution Info

Distribution

Transfer Options

Digital Transfer Options

On Line

Online Resource

Linkage

URL

https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layer/53012-annual-rainfall-2010/

Data Quality Info

DQ _ Data Quality

Scope

DQ _ Scope

Level

Scope Code

dataset

Level Description

Scope Description

Other

dataset

Lineage

LI _ Lineage

Statement

Source:National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research

Method:"Annual rainfall is the total accumulated rainfall over a year. It is estimated from the daily rainfall estimates of the Virtual Climate Station Network (NIWA).

Virtual climate station estimates are produced every day, for every 25km2 around the country. They use a statistical model to estimate the values between observations made at actual climate stations. This model uses information such as the pattern of annual rainfall to help with the estimations. (NIWA, Tait & Turner 2005; Tait et al 2006, Tait et al 2012).

The New Zealand precipitation values in the Water Physical Stock – surface water components show the total precipitation. The maps in this case study highlight spatial and time variations.